Magazine aziz art march

March 2015

M ar ti n J s a m p e a c o c k

Le ig ht on

MAR Social

Reza Abbasi Remedios Varo

Nima Yooshij

Maktab (Style)Tabriz

A z I z A n z a b i

Contents 1. Director’s speech-Nimā Yushij 2. Remedios Varo 5. Mars social 8. Sam Peacock 9. Reza Abbasi 15. Competition 16. Martin J Leighton 17. Competition 18.Aziz Anzabi 19.Constantin Brâncuși 23. Tabriz style

Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari

http://www.aziz-anzabi.com

In The Cold Winter Night In the cold winter night The furnace of the sun too Burns not like the hot hearth of my lamp, And no lamp is luminous as mine

Nimā Yushij Persian: ‫نیما یوشیج‬‎‎November 12, 1895 – January 6, 1960 also called Nimā , born Ali Esfandiāri was a contemporary Tabarian and Persian poet who started the she’r-e now ("‎,‫شعر نو‬new poetry") also known as she’r-e nimaa'i ("‎,‫شعر نیمایی‬Nimaic poetry") trend in Iran. He is considered as the father of modern Persian poetry.

He died of pneumonia in Shemiran, in the northern part of Tehran and was buried in his native village of Yush, Nur County, Mazandaran, as he had willed.

The white dress of Winter is closed.

The young and vibrant Spring replaces the Winter.

Spring travels so fast in your house that you don't even realise, when your thoughts are frozen and trapped by the Winter’s claws.

The happiness of the season flows through the veins of life.

The trees have woken up , The blossoms are greeting you, Your Spring be victorious and blissful Aziz Anzabi

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Remedios Varo Uranga (December 16, 1908 – move to Paris with Péret October 8, 1963) was a ensured that she would never Spanish-Mexican parabe able to return to Franco's surrealist painter and Spain. She was forced into exile anarchist. from Paris during the German She was born María de los occupation of France and moved Remedios Alicia Rodrigo Varo y to Mexico City at the end of Uranga in Anglès, a small town 1941. She died at the height of in the province of Girona, Spain her career from a heart attack in in 1908.[1] Her birth helped her Mexico City in 1963 mother get over the death of another daughter, which is the reason behind the name. In 1924 she studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. She met her second husband (after her death it was discovered that she had never divorced her first husband, painter Gerardo Lizarraga), the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, in Barcelona. There she was a member of the art group Logicophobiste.Due to her Republican ties, her 1937 2

Early life promising to name her first Varo’s father, Rodrigo Varo y Zajalvo, daughter after the saint. was an intellectual man Her father was a hydraulic who had a strong engineer and the family influence on his traveled the Iberian daughter’s artistic Peninsula and into North development. Varo would Africa. To keep Remedios copy the blueprints he busy during these long brought home from his job trips, her father had her in construction and he copy the technical drawings helped her further develop of his work with their her technical drawing straight lines, radii and abilities. He encouraged perspectives, which she independent thought and reproduced faithfully. As a supplemented her child she read much with education with science and favorite authors including adventure books, notably Jules Verne, Edgar Allan the novels of Alexandre Poe and Alexandre Dumas.

Dumas, Jules Verne, and She also read books about Edgar Allan Poe. As she oriental philosophy and grew older he provided her mysticism. Those first few with text on mysticism and years of her life left an philosophy. Varo’s mother, impression on her that Ignacia Uranga Bergareche, would later show up in was born to Basque motifs like machinery, parents in Argentina. She furnishing, artifacts, and was a devout Catholic and Romanesque and Gothic commended herself to the architecture unique to patron saint of Anglès, the Anglès.

Virgin of Los Remedios,

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Varo was given the basic arrived to Spain from France education deemed proper for and she took an early interest young ladies of a good in it. While in Madrid, Varo upbringing at a convent school had her initial introduction to - an experience that fostered Surrealism through lectures, her rebellious tendencies. exhibitions, films and theater.

Varo took a critical view of She was a regular visitor to the religion and rejected the Prado Museum and took religious ideology of her particular interest in the childhood education and paintings of Hieronymus instead clung to the liberal and Bosch, most notably The universalist ideas that her Garden of Earthly Delights. father instilled in her.

Formative years In 1930 she married a young The very first works of Varo's, painter named Gerardo a self-portrait and several Lizárraga. The couple left portraits of family members, Spain for Paris, both to escape date to 1923 when she was the rising political tensions as studying for a baccalaureate well as to be nearer to where at the School of Arts and much of Europe’s art scene Crafts. In 1924 (age 15) she was. enrolled in the San Fernando Fine Arts Academy in Madrid, the alma mater of Salvador Dalí and other renowned artists. Varo got her diploma as a drawing teacher in 1930.[ At school, surrealistic elements were already apparent in her work, as it had 4

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Sam Peacock is a London based artist who work primarily with steel. He is represented by the Curious Duke Gallery in London and has solo shows in London, Europe and Australia.

At present, Peacock is focusing his work on the Hydraulic Fracturing industry and creating artistic responses to this.

2011, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney (Solo Show) 2012, Avantgarde Gallery, Berlin (With artist Fabian Freese) 2013, Curious Duke, London (Unseen Landscape Solo Show) 2014, Timberyard, London (With Roys People 2015, Curious Duke, London (Fractured) 2015 Vess, Copenhagen (With 30/30cm, Copper, Plaster, Oils Roys People) on steel plate.

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Reza Abbasi

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Reza Abbasi, ‫رضا عباسی‬in Persian, usually Reza Abbasi also Aqa Reza or Āqā Riżā Kāshānī (c. 1565–1635) was the leading Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I. He is considered to be the last

great master of the Persian miniature, best known for his single miniatures for muraqqa or albums, especially single figures of beautiful youths.

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signatures that scholars now reject. He may have worked on Riza was possibly born in Kashan, as Āqā Riżā Kāshānī is the ambitious, but incomplete Shahnameh, now in the one of the versions of his Chester Beatty Library in name; it has also been suggested that he was born in Dublin. A much later copy of Mashhad, where his father, the the work, from 1628, at the miniature artist Ali Asghar, is end of Abbas' reign and recorded as having worked in rendered in a very different style, may also be his. It is now the atelier of the governor, in the British Library (MS Prince Ibrahim Mirza. After Ibrahim's murder, Ali Asghar Additional 27258). His first dated drawing is from 1601, in joined Shah Ismail II's the Topkapi Palace. A book workshop in the capital Qazvin.Riza probably received miniature of 1601-2 in the his training from his father and National Library of Russia has joined the workshop of Shah been attributed to him; the Abbas I at a young age. By this only other miniature in the book is probably by his father. date, the number of royal He is generally attributed with commissions for illustrated books had diminished, and had the 19 miniatures in a Khusraw and Shirin of 1631-32, although been replaced by album their quality has been miniatures in terms of criticised. employment given to the artists of the royal workshop.

Life and art

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His speciality, however, was the restrained, and lay more single miniature for the albums emphasis on the fashions of the or muraqqas of private day, the rich textiles, the collectors, typically showing one carelessly draped turban, the or two figures with a lightly European hat. Effete figures are drawn garden background, often presented standing in a sometimes in gold, in the style curved posture which formerly accentuates their well-fed waists. used for border paintings, with individual plants dotted about on a plain background. These vary between pure pen drawings and fully painted subjects with colour throughout, with several intermediate varieties. The most typical have at least some colour in the figures, though not in the background; later works tend to have less colour. His, or his buyers', favourite subjects were idealized figures of stylishly dressed and beautiful young men. According to Barbara Brend: The line of Riza's ink drawings has an absolute mastery conveying texture, form, movement and even personality.

His coloured figures, which must often be portraits, are more

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debate, mostly in German, as to whether the later Aqa Risa and Riza Abbasi were the same figure. It is now accepted that they were, although his style shows a considerable shift in mid-career.Riza Abbasi, the The style he pioneered painter, is also not to be remained influential on confused with his contemporary subsequent generations of Ali Riza Abbasi, Shah Abbas' Persian painters; several pupils favourite calligrapher, who in were prominent artists, 1598, was appointed to the including Mu'in, who painted his important position of royal portrait many decades later librarian, and therefore in (illustrated at top) as well as charge of the royal atelier of Riza's son, Muhammed Shafi painters and calligraphers. Both Abbasi.

Rizas accompanied the shah on His earlier works were signed his campaign to Khurasan in Aqa Risa (or Riza, Reza etc., 1598 and followed him to the depending on the new capital he established in transliteration used), which, Isfahan from 1597-98. Soon confusingly, is also the name of after, Riza Abbasi left the Shah's a contemporary Persian artist employ in a "mid-life crisis", who worked for the Mughal apparently seeking greater Emperor Jahangir in India. In independence and freedom to 1603, at the age of about 38, associate with Isfahan's "lowthe artist in Persia received life" world, including athletes, the honorific title of Abbasi wrestlers and other from his patron, the shah, unrespectable types associating him with his name.

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In 1610, he returned to the Sheila Canby's 1996 monograph court, probably because he was accepts 128 miniatures and short of money, and continued in drawings as by Riza, or probably the employ of the Shah until his so, and lists as "Rejected" or death.A series of drawings "Uncertain Attributions" a copying the miniatures further 109 that have been attributed to the great 15thascribed to him at some point century artist Behzad, which Today, his works can be found in were in the library of the shrine Tehran in the Reza Abbasi at Ardabil, strongly suggest that Museum and in the library at the Riza had visited the city, probably Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. They as part of the Shah's party and can also be found in several perhaps on his visits in 1618 or western museums, such as the 1625.

Smithsonian, where the Freer Gallery of Art has an album of About the time of his return to works by him and pupils,[ the court service, there is a British Museum, Louvre and the considerable change in his style. Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The primary colours and virtuoso technique of his early portraits give way in the 1620s to darker, earthier colours and a coarser, heavier line. New subjects only partly compensate for this disappointing stylistic development". He painted many older men, perhaps scholars, Sufi divines, or shepherds, as well as birds and Europeans, and in his last years sometimes satirized his subjects.

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OPEN CALL FOR SOLO EXHIBITION IN NYC Exhibition Dates: March 22 April 3, 2015 Entry Deadline: Thursday, March 12, 2015 @ Midnight

Dacia Gallery invites emerging and established artists to submit artwork for an opportunity to have a Solo Exhibition at Dacia Gallery. We are looking for new talented artists to exhibit and to possibly represent as well.

The gallery will advertise and promote the selected artist for the exhibition and host a

formal Opening Reception for the exhibit, including an Artist Talk during the opening reception.

For more information and to register please visit our website: www.daciagallery.com

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Martin J Leighton I have been painting with oils on canvas for the past 45years and turned professional in 2003. I work from my studio by the beautiful harbour side in Weymouth and am inspired by the sea and landscape around me. However, I really enjoy painting the human form, especially women, as it's a constant challenge to capture their sensuality, mood and the atmosphere they can portray.

Portraits are a speciality which can capture a moment in time of your life and be a gift to last a lifetime. My work is in private collections throughout the UK and in Australia and South Africa.

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Contemporary Art Gallery Online (CAGO)

presents: March Art Competition and Exhibition: Landscapes Theme Call for Artists - Deadline: March 31st, 2015 "Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something Important MUST Knows: that defies the law of the land and the Art Exhibition and Competition Opens: law of gravity at the same time is ideal.” March 1, 2015 ― Banksy, Wall and Piece Deadline for Receiving Entries: March Contemporary Art Gallery Online 31, 2015 announces their 3rd Annual Competition Results are Posted: April “LANDSCAPES” Online Art Competition 13, 2015 for the month of March 2015.

Opening of Online Art Exhibition: April 1, 2015 The gallery announces an international Award Certificates Emailed to Artists: and national call for entries from artists April 28, 2015 regardless of where they reside to apply Online Art Exhibition Closes & Archived: to this competition by submitting their April 30, 2015 best representational and nonEntry Fees: representational art. $15 for 1 to 3 images and $20 for all

A call to artists is announced for the artist’s interpretation of the “Landscapes” theme. Submissions should depict the natural world, outdoor scenery, geographical environments’ and related landscape subjects for inclusion into this Art Competition and Exhibition.

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It is not necessary to have a PayPal account in order to use this service.

Eligibility: Must be original work to the artist.

The artist must be willing to sell their work (print or original piece).

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The World of the Angels

By Aziz Anzabi Sculpture Clay, part of the world of the angels collection.

In this sculpture I tried to show that peace is like an angel and these angels can protect earth if only the humans rather have peace instead of evil.

Original Clay 28cm x 23cm x 15cm

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Constantin Brâncuși February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957 was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France.

Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20thcentury, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools.

Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art.

Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others. But other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.

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Early years Brâncuși grew up in the village of Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, close to Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving.

Geometric patterns of the region are seen in his later works.

Brâncuși created a violin by hand with materials he found around his workplace.

Impressed by Brâncuși's talent for carving, an industrialist entered him in the Craiova School of Arts and Crafts (școala de arte și meserii), where he pursued his love for woodworking, graduating with honors in 1898.

His parents Nicolae and Maria Brâncuși were poor peasants who earned a meager living through back-breaking labor; from the age of seven, Constantin herded the family's flock of sheep. He showed talent for carving objects out of wood, and often ran away from home to escape the bullying of his father and older brothers.

At the age of nine, Brâncuși left the village to work in the nearest large town. At 11 he went into the service of a grocer in Slatina; and then he became a domestic in a public house in Craiova where he remained for several years. When he was 18, 20

Personal life Brâncuși would cook his own He then enrolled in the food, traditional Romanian Bucharest School of Fine Arts, dishes, with which he would where he received academic treat his guests. training in sculpture. He worked hard, and quickly distinguished Brâncuși held a large spectrum of himself as talented. One of his interests, from science to music. earliest surviving works, under He was a good violinist and he the guidance of his anatomy would sing old Romanian folk teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a songs, often expressing by them masterfully rendered écorché his feelings of homesickness. (statue of a man with skin After the installment of removed to reveal the muscles communism, he never underneath) which was considered moving back to his exhibited at the Romanian native Romania, but he did visit it Athenaeum in 1903. Though eight times. just an anatomical study, it foreshadowed the sculptor's His circle of friends included later efforts to reveal essence artists and intellectuals in Paris rather than merely copy such as Amedeo Modigliani, Ezra outward appearance.

Pound, Henri Pierre Roché, Brâncuși always dressed in the Guillaume Apollinaire, Louise simple ways the Romanian Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Man peasants did. His studio was Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Henri reminiscent of the houses of the Rousseau, and Fernand Léger. He peasants from his native region: was an old friend of Romany there was a big slab of rock as a Marie, who was also Romanian, table and a primitive fireplace, and referred Isamu Noguchi to similar to those found in her café in Greenwich Village. traditional houses in his native Oltenia, while the rest of the furniture was made by him out of 21 wood.

Although surrounded by the Parisian avant-garde, Brâncuși‎never‎lost‎the‎ contact with Romania and had friends from the community of Romanian artists and intellectuals living in Paris, including Benjamin Fondane, George Enescu, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu,‎Nicolae‎Dărăscu,‎ Panait Istrati, Traian Vuia, Eugène Ionesco, Emil Cioran

and Paul Celan.

Brâncuși‎held‎a‎particular‎ interest in mythology, especially Romanian mythology, folk tales, and traditional art (which also had a strong influence on his works), but he became interested in African and Mediterranean art as well.

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Tabriz style First Tabriz style or Mogul style (ages 7 and 8 AH..) Is the first Iranian miniature painting style founded in Tabriz and because of this they call it the Tabriz style.

This coincided with the patriarch of the Mughal empire (Eelkhanian)in Iran Tabriz was the capital . This style is when symbols of Chinese paintings mixed with Persian miniatures. The impact of Chinese Painting on Iranian painting is obvious.

The style can benefit from the work of Ibn Bukhtishu Bio (695 AH),Jameh altawarikh Rashidi (714 AD) and Dmvt Shahnameh (Abusaeed) (731-737 AD) refer to the caliography of Naskh. Most of the books were produced in the Rob Rashidi.

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